WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s attorney said Sunday that his legal team will not allow special counsel Robert Mueller to question Trump about his firing last year of former FBI director James Comey. Comey, at the time Trump ousted him in May 2017, was chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and heading the agency’s […]
WASHINGTON — United States President Donald Trump said Friday the Justice Department’s inspector general’s report on the Hillary Clinton email probe reached the wrong conclusion when it determined there was no bias in the agency’s handling of the investigation. “The end result was wrong,” Trump said in an interview on the Fox News Channel. “There was […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not fire Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, contradicting previous statements that the probe was the reason for his dismissal. “Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia!,” Trump said in a posting on Twitter. […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he did not fire former FBI chief James Comey last year because he was heading the agency’s probe of Russian links to his 2016 election campaign, a contention directly conflicting with what he said days after he had ousted him. “Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director […]